INTRODUCTION
This volume is a result of a long-running work. The process up to this report can be summarized as follows: The United Nations Committee against Torture adopted the Second Periodic Report of Turkey in 2003 and the process of the next periodic report was expected to be in 2010. The Third Periodic Report of Turkey was considered at meetings, conducted on 3 and 4 November 2010 in Geneva.
For the first time, The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey presented a 99 paged, a kind of “a shadow report” focussing on a wide range of topics, after the submission of the Governments’ report to the Committee. Meanwhile, as HRFT we actively participated in the sessions in Geneva.
UN Committee against Torture issued the Third Periodic Report on Turkey on 19 November 2010. As you can see in the appendix, the report significantly respects to the report of HRFT.
After the Third Periodic Report, there was formed a one year follow-up period under 4 titles. At the end of that period, the Turkish Government presented its new report of four titles on 5 March 2012.
Therefore, this follow-up report to Turkey’s new report was presented to relevant authorities in October 2012.
By the contribution of the European Commission, 22 colleagues who are expertise on reporting, gathered in Ankara on 1 October 2011 in order to review the four titles, mentioned in the report. And again a meeting in order to finalize the report, with the participation of 22 colleagues in Diyarbakır on 23 September 2012 was held. We hope this report, which is prepared under the umbrella of HRFT by the contribution of our colleagues, fighting against the right violations from various groups of occupations shall be useful.